. Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel . nd I may be back. With an oath hetold me to go, and that I had better not come back, and I didnot. I rode eighteen miles to Columbia through the worst roada man ever rode before I was able to get a pair of shoes. Now you ask me of the change I have seen. It was lessthan six years after this identical date that this same negrowas presiding over the lower House of the Texas Legislatureas its Speaker in the Twelfth Texas Legislature. And it washe who passed upon more measures looking to the internal im-provement than all the Speakers who had
. Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel . nd I may be back. With an oath hetold me to go, and that I had better not come back, and I didnot. I rode eighteen miles to Columbia through the worst roada man ever rode before I was able to get a pair of shoes. Now you ask me of the change I have seen. It was lessthan six years after this identical date that this same negrowas presiding over the lower House of the Texas Legislatureas its Speaker in the Twelfth Texas Legislature. And it washe who passed upon more measures looking to the internal im-provement than all the Speakers who had filled the chairs inthe eleven previous Legislatures and all the Congresses of theRepublic of Texas. For many years afterward he was Pro-bate Judge of that very identical county, and is now, or wasa short time back. * * * The owner of an adjoining plantation made a raid on thisplantation and on this overseers wife. In defending her thisoverseer was shot in a dozen or more places and then cut topieces with a bowie knife, and Jackson, the murderer, was. IN ANTE-BELLUM DAYS. 159 turned loose by a jury of his peers two years afterward, andtwo> years after that was himself shot to pieces by a cowboywhom he had insulted. The cowboy was never molested. My business brought me in contact with all the largest cot-ton and cane plantations on the Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupeand Trinity Rivers of Texas, and I was drilled into1 my busi-ness and thoroughly instructed as to> how to size up a planta-tion and its owners and overseers. Upon my report largelydepended the credit by the Houston, Galveston and New Or-leans factors and bankers. In those days business was conducted on quite a differentplan from what it is now in any part of the world. The manwho owned a tract of land, clear and unincumbered, and fouror five niggers, could usually procure credit to- the full facevalue of the niggers and the land, either,in ready cash or ingoods furnished for plantation supplies. The rates were tenp
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